2025-26

The course deals with cultural matters, such as public and private education, schools for the public, academies, libraries, the circulation of manuscripts and printed matter, literary production, painting and music. Selected archival sources are discussed and analysed, with a view to students familiarizing themselves with archival sources.
Students may take an optional one-hour study session, whose aim is to familiarize them with archival sources in Greek.

Στόχος του μαθήματος είναι η εξοικείωση των φοιτητών με την προοδευτική εξέλιξη του κοινωνίας των Ελλήνων πολιτών και της ταυτότητας του Έλληνα στους δύο αιώνες από τη σύσταση του ελληνικού κράτους.

Representations of 1940s in Greek Postwar Literature

The course deals first with the explication of the formation and development over time of the concepts of semiology and semiotics as an interdisciplinary approach employed by the social sciences. The course lays particular stress on the semiotic approach to culture, through an elucidation of the concept of 'text', which, in the approach employed by Geertz, can be taken from written discourse and applied to all components of a culture.

Elite and popular Greek fiction of the 19th century